Tech Field Day News Rundown

HPE bought Silver Peak, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down what the company will do with the SD-WAN stalwart. Then they discuss the latest GCP announcements from Cloud Next 20. Plus Nvidia's big week versus Intel, Huawei striking out in the UK, Zoom launching hardware, and a major acquisition in the component market. https://youtu.be/X6KzPTPgg3o

VMware gets some interesting DR assets with Datrium, Alphabet's Loom starts internet balloon service in Kenya, most passwords are bad, and Dfinity opens up its decentralized serverless service to developers. https://youtu.be/ZSFKkCaHibM

Amazon launches the Aeronautics and Satellite Solutions to go to space, Salesforce tries to remove gender bias from AI, and Microsoft launches initiatives to upskill the economy. All this and more IT news of the week with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/wwTIPJCp5g4

Dell is reportedly investigating a VMware spinoff, a bill in the US Senate would require tech companies to help break encryption, Intel launched Gen 2 Optane DIMMs, and AWS mitigates the largest DDoS. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break it all down on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/yy6RHtlNuZY

Cisco announces that its SecureX platforms becomes generally available on June 30th, GitHub will change repository names from "master" to "main", and Intel integrates CET into Tiger Lake CPUs. All this and the rest of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, streaming live at 12:30pm ET every Wednesday. https://youtu.be/WVPdJbxkbp4

NetApp buys Spot.io, VMware gets LastLine, IBM exits the facial recognition business, and Slack cozies up to AWS. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/wxVnFPYzYPU

This week we're doing a headlines only version of the Gestalt IT Rundown. Cisco announced it is postponing Cisco Live, ThousandEyes and Edgewise Networks are acquires, OpenAI details a new learning model, and Zoom will provide end-to-end encryption to only paid users. https://youtu.be/ydnIjOWT4u8

This week on the Rundown, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth dig into a new survey of IT pros asking how COVID-19 is impacting digital transformation. Are these changes long term strategic changes or short term mixes? Plus HPE announces aggressive cost savings, 44.2 Terrabit per second internet is a thing, and GDPR hits the terrible twos. All this and more on the Rundown this week.

This week we're focused on the big announcements from Microsoft Build. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino break down the latest updates with Office, Azure, AI, and open source. There's a lot to unpack from this major Microsoft event. https://youtu.be/k3fBp7ybcao

Dell EMC releases PowerStore to unify its midrange storage options, Windows and Linux PCs have a big Thunderbolt vulnerability, and Google unifies the leadership for its messaging products. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all of this and more this week. https://youtu.be/_4cvSZ1Izt8

Nvidia buys Cumulus Networks, Nutanix furloughs 25% of its staff, ransomware disclosures to the FTC spike, and Salt vulnerabilities are rapidly exploited. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/ixq0IuxE5B4

Google's Cloud business reports revenue while it plans to grow Google Meet, Arm wants to give startups the first license taste for free, and can OpenCL 3.0 roll back the clock? Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and all the IT news of the week, live at 12:30pm ET on the Gestalt IT Rundown! https://youtu.be/nZLJG91Gdyk

Verizon buys teleconferencing provider BlueJeans Network, Dropbox offers bug bounties for vendors, Alkira comes out of stealth, and Google releases advanced remote access tools. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, streaming live at 12:30pm ET. https://youtu.be/X5CuzS-acLc

VMware announced that VMworld US and WMworld Europe will be combined into a virtual event held in September, GitHub opens up private repositories to all users, IBM opens up resources to help with the dearth of COBOL programmers, and more. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and more during the show today. Be sure to subscribe on YouTube to catch the live stream every Wednesday at...

Zoombombing is becoming a problem and the industry, and Zoom itself reacts. Plus the MANRS group gets lots of new members to improve internet routing security, the Linux Foundation is working with a microkernel and the FCC is set to vote on 6GHz. Join Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss on the Gestalt IT Rundown!

Palo Alto Networks reached an agreement to buy CloudGenix. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss why they made the move and whether SD-WAN is just a SASE feature now. Plus they discuss why the bloom is off Zoom, if COVID-19 revealed a critical flaw in modern startups, and why Microsoft is trying to pitch Teams to consumers. https://youtu.be/esROLCNMV7k

O’Reilly closes its event business, Microsoft has a font of exploits, the power of Folding@Home, and Storj Labs decentralizes cloud storage. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss all this and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown this week, with special guest Stephen Foskett.

GitHub acquires npm to better secure the open source software supply chain, FireEye sees human triggered ransomware increase over 800%, a wormable SMB flaw is published, and Amazon might use the Linux Foundation's Dent project to open source cashierless tech. All this and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down the IT news of the week.

New vulnerabilities are published for AMD and Intel Processors, and we get an early look at the performance of Amazon's Graviton2 processor. Join Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss all the IT news of the week!

Google, Cisco, Zoom, and Microsoft offer free teleconferencing to help stop COVID-19 spread, 80 Arm cores come to the datacenter, bill passes to rip and replace Huawei equipment for rural ISPs, and things are looking bad for the commodity server market. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown! This week on the Rundown: Wi-Fi Dissassociat...

FreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich Stroffolino and Josh Fidel to get caught up on all the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. This Week on the Rundown: Mozilla Makes DNS Over HTTPS Default UK Accounts Go to the US  Google Cloud Security Updates McAfee Buys Light Point...

Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss this and more today for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings. This week on the Rundown: IBM Cancels on RSA Conference More JEDI Drama EU To Investigate Emerging Tech Markets The Free Speech of Maine...

New ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law, and more this week. Rich Stroffolino is joined by Keith Townsend this week for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings. This week on the Rundown: The End to No Breach Ransomware?  SaaS-as-a-Security IBM Gives Itself Some Slack Imp...

VMware changes up its per-CPU pricing to reflect the proliferation of CPU cores, WireGuard VPN is coming to the Linux kernel, Western Digital finds a buyer for ActiveScale, Intel drops its Nervana chip line, and Google Cloud reveals revenue numbers. All this and more with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. This week on the Rundown: VMware Per-CPU Licensing Ch...

Reactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about all these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefing. This week on the Rundown: Google Bug Bounty Payouts up 91% Thunderbird Goes Corporate App Maker Shutdown LoRaWAN Security Issues? ServiceNow Shifts Focus Google...